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1. | Ruth Anna STRAYHORN was born 1848, New London, Chester Co., Pennsylvania (daughter of Robert STRAYHORN and Mary Ann STEPHENS). Ruth married I. Washington GRAY 16 Oct 1873, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rev. W. E. Schenck. I. died 19 Apr 1888. [Group Sheet] Children:
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2. | Robert STRAYHORN was born 04 Jan 1815, Chester Co., Pennsylvania (son of Samuel J. STRAYHORN and Hannah GHEEN); died 08 Jun 1905, Avondale, Chester Co, Pennsylvania; was buried New London Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Notes: Living with son Thomas in 1900 Census. Robert married Mary Ann STEPHENS 22 Mar 1838, New London, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, Rev. Robert P. DuBois. Mary was born 1818, London Grove, Chester, Pennsylvania; died 01 Jun 1893, New London, Chester Co, Pennsylvania; was buried New London Presbyterian Church Cemetery. [Group Sheet] |
3. | Mary Ann STEPHENS was born 1818, London Grove, Chester, Pennsylvania; died 01 Jun 1893, New London, Chester Co, Pennsylvania; was buried New London Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
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4. | Samuel J. STRAYHORN was born 1769, Antrim, Ireland (son of Robert STRAYHORN and FNU LNU); died 10 Oct 1858, New London Twp, Chester Co., Pennsylvania; was buried New London Presbyterian Cemetery, Chester County, Pennsylvania - Old Section. Notes: 1789 Tax List in Horsham, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Samuel married Hannah GHEEN 1 Feb 1798, Thornbury, Chester, Pennsylvania. Hannah was born Thornbury, Chester, Pennsylvania; died Bef 1850. [Group Sheet] |
5. | Hannah GHEEN was born Thornbury, Chester, Pennsylvania; died Bef 1850.
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8. | Robert STRAYHORN was born Abt 1733, Ayrshire, Scotland; died Aft 1820, Chester, Pennsylvania. Other Events:
Notes: According to the Biographical History of Chester and Delaware Counties by Cope and Ashmeade (the copy I have seen was entitled Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties -Ed) published in 1901, Vol 2, page 394, "Robert Strahorn was a Scottish dissenter, who left his native land in order to escape religious persecution, and landed in America in April 1775, about the time of the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. He enlisted three times in the Continental Army, serving through the entire war, and never receiving a wound. He participated in some of the most memorable events which marked the struggle for independence, and was a sharer in many of the greatest of the hardships which fell to the lot of the devoted patriot army. He accompanied Washington when the latter, on that never-to-be-forgotten Christmas night, crossed the Delaware in order to surprise the Hessians at Trenton, and he shared all the sufferings of the winter at Valley Forge. Robert brought his two sons, Nathaniel and Samuel with him to America in 1775." (Most arrival records recorded males over sixteen years old, so Margaret was likely not recorded -Ed.) Robert — FNU LNU. [Group Sheet] |
9. | FNU LNU Notes: She was definitely not Margaret Ross. Notes: No birth records, thus no mother(s), have been found for Samuel and Nathaniel Strayhorn, and the birth record for Margaret does not name her parents.
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